Bikes Okay, Some KU Coeds State
It might sound odd, with today's modern transportation, to say bicycles will replace automobiles—but a growing traffic problem at KU could make it come true.
Even with the 45-degree hills on campus, a recent survey of University coeds shows that women appear to favor the bicycle idea. Of 59 women surveyed, more than half agreed that the plan would be a good one.
Many eastern universities and, closer to home, the University of Colorado, have already banned automobiles on campus during regular school hours. Although no official step has been made in this direction, KU authorities say something must be done to alleviate the safety hazard. Bicycles are a possible remedy.
Only 24.7 per cent favored substituting bicycles for automobiles on campus. Riding bikes to and from classes was favored by 42.7 per cent.
About half the women interviewed were strongly in favor of riding bicycles. This included many women who would face a steep uphill ride. More than 50 per cent agreed they would ride bicycles if other coeds would also do it.
The survey, initiated by the All Student Council Traffic and Safety Committee, grew out of an increasing traffic hazard on Jayhawk Boulevard. The stream of pedestrians between classes combines with automobiles to form a constant jam at intersections.
Of course the many replies to the questionnaire brought other suggestions. One coed favored a ski lift as a solution to the problem.
Even more modern was the bright young woman who was "strongly in favor of pogo sticks."
"I really don't think bikes are the most practical means of
transportation," she said. "The pogo stick would have a lower initial cost and could be parked in the corner of the classroom like an umbrella. Books colud be carried in a knapsack right on the student's back," she continued.
"It could be carried up and down stairs like a walking stick. It would also be a handy protection against the average KU male, bandits, and other evil beings."
William Reed, Kansas City, Mo., senior and chairman of the Traffic and Safety Committee, agreed with this opinion.
Another coed, perhaps a bit on the heavy side, suggested that bicycling would be a good means of reducing.
Of course not all were in favor of the plan. As one young woman put it, "Hell no, I wouldn't ride a bike."
"If everyone else did it," was the most typical comment uncovered in the survey.
But the main problem in making bicycle transportation a reality at KU seems to be conformity.
"There would be a definite safety factor involved." Reed said. "KU has never had a traffic fatality and had only one injury last year. But as automobiles on campus increase with the rising enrollment, some restrictive measures on autos will have to be made."
Reed said that there is a possibility that KU will have a Bicycle Emphasis Week sometime this spring.
"To get started we need organization," Reed said. "It would seem on paper that the plan would work. Our problem now is to condition students and get them to start it."
And it appears that bicycles might be the solution, at least if the women have anything to say about it.
Thursday, Jan. 8, 1959
Daily hansan
56th Year, No. 71
Mikoyan Has Wrong Idea, Ketzel Says
A KU faculty member said today that better relations with Russia are necessary before the United States increases trade with the Communist country.
Clifford P. Ketzel, assistant professor of political science, said he felt Soviet deputy premier Anasta I. Mikoyan was putting the cart before the horse in saying that increased trade would improve relations between the two countries.
Mikovan, here in an effort to persuade Congress to lift trade barriers between the United States and Russia, said that present trade restrictions pose a serious barrier to any such improved relations.
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"Trade is a good area to get better relations, but we need better relations before we start trading."
Prof. Ketzel said the President would make the decisions on trade with Russia. Congress will not be a major factor in the issue as it stands now.
Prof. Ketzel said:
"Up to now, all restrictions with the Russians have been dealt with by the President," he said. "Congress can pass a resolution indicating it wants trade barriers lifted, but I doubt if this will happen."
"He may be here to feel out the possibility of a Summit meeting.
Prof. Ketzel expressed belief that nothing exciting would happen with this particular visit by Mikovan.
"He may be here to find out our stand on the Berlin issue," Prof. Ketzel said. "Or if he can see the President or the Secretary of State, he may use his visit for propaganda purposes, indicating that American-Soviet relations are not as strained as they appear to be."
"We'll just have to wait and draw our conclusions afterwards," he said, mentioned that there may be other Mikoyan's visit to the United States.
Mikovan is a guest of Cyrus Eaton, millionaire industrialist, while he is visiting the country.
A new course in Linguistics. The Nature of Language, will be offered next semester for two hours credit.
New Linguistics Course Offered
The course is designed to give the student an understanding of language and correct popular misconceptions about language. Examples will be taken primarily from English, but other languages will be used.
Hibbs to Give White Lecture
Ben Hibbs, editor of the Saturday Evening Post and 1923 graduate of the William Allen White School of Journalism, will give the tenth annual William Allen White Lecture at the University on Tuesday, Feb. 10.
He will speak at 3 p.m. in Fraser Theater after receiving the William
Ben Hibbs
Allen White Foundation's 1959 national citation for journalistic merit
The lecture is sponsored each year
Live' Shell Found In Topeka Museum
TOPEKA — (UPI) — A large mortar shell that had been on display in the state museum since the early 1920s was given a police escort to Forbes Air Force Base yesterday when the director's suspicions that it was "live" proved true.
A few days earlier some part-time helpers in the museum had tinkered and pounded on the dangerous explosive out of curiosity. Air Force armament experts told museum director Stanley Sohl it would have blown off a corner of the building if it discharged.
Sohl said the 10-inch weapon, possibly German or French from World War I, was placed in a store- room a few years ago. He said he came across it while cleaning up and noticed the firing mechanism was still intact.
by the Foundation, which also holds its annual board meeting on Feb. 10, the birthday of the late William Allen White, noted editor and publisher of The Emporia Gazette and a University of Kansas alumnus.
Mr. Hibbs, editor in chief of the University Daily Kansas in his senior year at the University, became editor of The Saturday Evening Post in 1942 at the age of 40 and since then has taken the magazine to new heights in circulation and reputation.
He was born in Fontana, spent most of his boyhood at Pretty Prairie, and was graduated from Kingman High School. At the University he was outstanding scholastically as well as in journalism and other activities. He made 110 hours of A and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa, honorary scholastic fraternity. He also was a member of Sigma Delta Chi, Sigma Phi Epsilon, Sachem and the Quill Literary Club.
Between 1923 and 1929 Mr. Hibbs did newspaper work and journalism teaching at a number of places. He was an assistant instructor in journalism at the University of Kansas, news editor of the Fort Morgan (Colo.) Times, news editor of the Pratt Tribune, taught journalism and was director of publicity at Kansas State College at Hays. He was editor and manager of the Goodland News-Republic and managing editor of the Arkansas City Traveler.
In 1929 he went to Country Gentleman magazine in Philadelphia as an associate editor, and in 1940 he became editor of that publication, two years before his selection as editor of the Post.
The annual meeting of the Foundation's board of trustees will be held at 10 a.m. Feb. 10 in Flint Hall. At 12:30 the Foundation will confer the fifth annual citation for journalistic merit upon a Kansas editor at its annual luncheon in the Kansas Room of the Kansas Union. Sigma Delta Chi and Theta Sigma Phi will hold a dinner at 6:15 p.m. in the Union in honor of Mr. Hibbs. An informal discussion with Mr. Hibbs will follow the dinner.
Weather
Fair west, partly cloudy east this afternoon and tonight.
Tomorrow generally fair. Colder this afternoon and extreme east tomorrow. Warmer west and north tomorrow. Low tonight 15 to 20. High tomorrow generally 40s.
Abels Donate Encyclopedia
A set of the first American edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica, published in 1798, has been given to the Watson Library by Mr. and Mrs. Edwin F. Abels of Lawrence.
Varied Reactions to Approaching Final Week
Above, Robert Vosper, director of KU libraries, and Mrs. Edwin Abels, Lawrence, examine one of the volumes in the set of encyclopedia.
The books have been in the family of Mrs. Abels since one of her grandfathers in Lancaster, Pa., was a patron for underwriting publication of the 18 volumes in 1798. Several national museums had asked for the rare set, the Abels said. But they preferred to place the books where they could be used rather than locked in a glass case.
By Mary Alden
The gift is in its original binding of calf and colored paper.
The gift, in its original binding of calf and colored paper boards, also includes the rare supplement in three volumes of two parts each.
The campus is changed. The gaiety of the pre-Christmas weeks is gone. It has been replaced by a resigned gloom. The cause —final week is rapidly approaching.
It is interesting to see how this realization affects different persons.
You could hear him a block away while he told his buddy that he had flunked this exam or that, and that his highest possible grade average would be minus something.
First, there is the freshman who previously thought it necessary to brag about his assorted hours of F and D.
He has changed now. The fact that he really could do this badly and that all his talk might become reality in a few days has silenced him. Frantically he tries to catch up.
"Why didn't I realize that there were only two weeks after vacation to do everything," he says to himself. All is far from well with him.
Then there is the panicked soul who is "safe" right now, but may lose everything in finals without some concentrated effort. This is usually the person who came through mid-semesters in such good shape he put away the books until now.
Included in this group are Greek pledges who want that active pin so badly, freshman women who realize that rush
is coming near and last semester seniors who don't want to face another semester to correct the study errors they made in this one.
Perhaps the most significant reminder of the finals season is a formerly much-used television set whose screen is now covered by a piece of notebook paper. Written on the paper is the grim reminder that "Final Week Means Everything."
The most detested and envied campus personage in these weeks is the self-satisfied person. She spent a productive vacation with the books and the typewriter.
Now she paints her nails or reads a novel while her comrades suffer. "I don't want to start studying this early, but I have nothing else to do," she says. Poor girl.
Her type is few and far between. They are predominately female, but a few males do slip in. Their main characteristic is organization. They use every spare minute early in the term. They work while their companions complain about what's ahead. They probably deserve a gold medal for efficiency, but right now receive only sneers.
A mere two and one-half weeks will restore normalcy to all of these persons. But until Jan. 24, don't expect the usual behavior. This isn't the time of year for it. Final week is bearing down.